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DESCRIPTION:“Philosophizing\,” argued the existential philosopher\, Karl J
 aspers (1932) “starts with our situation”. This lecture introduces key co
 ncepts\, frameworks and figurations in existential media studies by setti
 ng out from a moment of interrelated crises in which advanced technologie
 s such as “AI” ([i]artificial intelligence[/i]) are hailed as the inevita
 ble solution to all of humanity’s problems. In the digital limit situatio
 n (Lagerkvist 2020\, 2022)—as the technology is entrusted to be salvaging
  us or feared to outperform and render us extinct—“the self” is simultane
 ously encroached from all sides. In a curious way\, new “subjects” are me
 anwhile envisioned to be born inside the models. This raises a series of 
 pressing questions: What conceptions of the self are actually being forge
 d within this powerful socio-technical imaginary? What norms for being hu
 man in the world do advanced technologies bring about\, challenge or reac
 tivate? And how can we envision selves and technologies relationally as w
 ell as within limits\, for promoting an existentially sustainable future 
 with machines? \n\n[b]About Amanda Lagerkvist[/b]\nAmanda Lagerkvist is P
 rofessor of media and communication studies\, PI of the [url=https://eur0
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 Hub for Digital Existence [/url]and guest researcher at the [url=https://
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 2Fcentre%2Fcrs&data=05%7C02%7CPalsdottir%40sdu.dk%7Cf9361bba2c1748ba41aa0
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 disciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) [/url] at Uppsala Uni
 versity. She has been appointed Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for
  Advanced Study\, The University of Helsinki\, for the academic year of 2
 025-2026. As Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2014-2018) she founded the young 
 field of existential media studies. Her work has spanned the existential 
 dimensions of digital memories\, death online and lifeworlds of biometric
 s. She currently explores intersections of datafication\, disability and 
 selfhood\; and the ambivalent AI imaginary and its relationship to both f
 utures and endings (with funding from the Bank of Sweden and WASP-HS). In
  her monograph [i]Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situatio
 n [/i](OUP\, 2022) she introduces Karl Jaspers’ existential philosophy of
  limit situations for media theory. She is the co-editor of [i]Relational
  Technologies: In Search of the Self Across Datafied Lifeworlds[/i] with 
 Dr. Jacek Smolicki (Bloomsbury\, Thinking/Media Series) and she is curren
 tly under contract for her new monograph [i]Dismedia: Technologies of the
  Extraordinary Self[/i] with The University of Michigan Press.\n\n[b]Venu
 e[/b]\nThe DIAS Auditorium\, SDU Campus Odense\n\n[i]This event is open f
 or all. No registration needed.[/i]
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SUMMARY:DIAS Event: At the Limit: Existential Media\, Relational Selves an
 d Technological Futures by Amanda Lagerkvist
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